MARCH 2025: Australia’s most prestigious print prize has announced a boost to its prize pool as it
opens submissions nationally to emerging and established artists.

The acquisitive biennale exhibition will return in August 2025 for its 47th year, marking it the nation’s longest running and most sought-after print award.

The Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award will this year award the ‘First Prize’ winner $20,000. While the ‘First Nation’ and Young Emerging’ print prizes will each award $5,000. The total prize pool has grown to $30,000, making it the nation’s biggest print prize.

The Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award will be judged by a panel of nationally acclaimed artists and academics.

Judges will be looking for a diverse selection of prints and artist books which challenge what print making is in its many forms; from small to large-scale across a range of innovative and emerging print making methods including 3D, textile, etching, lino and wood cutting, digital and screen printing.

Abigail Moncrieff, Curator & Collections Lead at the Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre commented that this was an exciting moment for artists to be part of the country’s most prestigious print award.

“We’re excited to open submissions to the Walyalup Fremantle Art Centre Print Award and announce a boost to the prize pool. We felt it was time for the value of the prize to be refreshed and we hope this will encourage artists from across the country to enter this fantastic award, which seeks to represent contemporary print making today.”

Exhibition highlights in recent years have included Jacky Cheng’s Yue Lao – God of Matchmaking and Marriage, created from recycled Chinese calendar papers; Jay Staples and Stephen Brameld’s incidental artwork Forest, a Merbau tannin timber-to-fabric transfer on canvas, and Kieren Karritpul’s Traditional Fish Basket, a collagraph print.

Submissions are open until 2 June 2025. The exhibition will take place in August at the Walyalup Fremantle Art Centre.

All exhibited artworks are for sale with the winning piece acquired for the City of Fremantle Art Collection, the largest municipal art collection in WA.

To find out more, visit: https://www.fac.org.au/whats-on/post/2025-fremantle-arts-centre-print-award/

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NOTES TO THE EDITOR
• The First Nations Print Prize is supported by Wesfarmers Arts
• The Young Emerging Print Prize is supported by Fremantle Community Bank

ABOUT THE PRINT AWARD
The Walyalup Fremantle Art Centre Print Award was founded in 1976, just a few years after the establishment of the Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre. The prize was initiated by Ian Templeman as a way of attracting interstate artists and audiences to the young gallery.

Now in its 47th year, the Print Awards is the Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre’s longest running exhibition series and Australia’s premier print award. The award attracts entries from a huge range of established and emerging artists from across Australia